RE: [Paddlewise] Registration and Safety

Actually that is a good point too. Everytime there is a death money gets 
spent and so the governing bodies want the industries to pitch in. You
know how State Parks had the serious budget cut last year, although I
heard they had an increase this year. Enforcement and stuff has become a 
larger part of their job.

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Robert Woodard wrote:

> > Regarding registration,
> >
> > It is just revenue collection and nothing more.
> 
> This makes sense, and leads me to ponder another thing or two:
> 
> Why the high interest in revenue collection from canoes/kayaks? Is this to
> offset the potential increase in enforcing some yet unwritten canoe/kayak
> regulations? New safety programs? What do others think about canoe/kayak
> registration if the revenues were used for what I just mentioned?
> 
> Woody
> 
> 
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